The Spirit of Truth

In celebration of 20 years of Leicestershire Chorale Choral Scholarships Scheme.
Choral Metamorphoses of existing works by Tallis, Byrd, Bach, Stanford, Vaughan Williams and Wesley, adapted and rearranged by modern composers Judith Bingham, Roderick Williams, Knut Nystedt, Bob Chilcott and William Petter.

After a chance conversation in August 2005 with a Leicester University student on an RSCM course in Salisbury, the name of Adam Piplica was suggested as someone who could become the first of now well over a hundred young singers, to benefit from scholarships to sing with Chorale, whilst still at school or university.

Many have gone on to university scholarships or to music conservatoire and some have even built successful singing careers beyond that. Others have kept singing as a strong suit and important part of their adult lives, some even coming back to re-join Chorale as members later on.

To celebrate this momentous anniversary, we aim to invite back as many former scholars as possible to join together in a Schola Cantorum who will sing with and independently of our existing Chorale. We will explore a series of choral re-imaginings of classics from the repertoire such as Thomas Tallis’s If ye love me, William Byrd’s Ave verum and JS Bach’s chorale Komm süsser Tod, reworked by Judith Bingham, Roderick Williams and Knut Nystedt respectively.